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bottle out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, informal) To fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve; to run away or back down from a contest or challenge.
    • I had really wanted to dive off the 10-metre platform, but in the end I bottled out.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
bottled out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bottled out Tense=Past lexicographic
bottles out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bottling out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

chicken out

Synonyms

lose one's nerve · bottle it · get cold feet

Translations (4)

fr craquer (to fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve) · pl tchórzyć (to fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve) · pl stchórzyć (to fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve) · fr se dégonfler (to fail to perform a promised or planned action due to lack of courage or nerve)